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Respiratory Flashcards

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define dyspnea

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Shortness of breath

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define orthopnea

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SOB when lying down

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what are some DOH that relate to respiratory disease?

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  • Physical environment
  • Employment conditions
  • Biology and genetics
  • Culture
  • Personal health practices and coping skills
  • Diet and nutrition: evidence has been found that diet may be linked to chronic respiratory diseases (asthma and COPD)
  • Social environment and support networks
  • Education
  • Socioeconomic status
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What are some abnormal chest configurations?

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  • scoliosis
  • kyphosis
  • pigeon chest
  • barrel chest
  • funnel chest
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Define scoliosis

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  • lateral curvature and rotation of thoracic and lumbar spine
  • may cause distortion of the lungs, which results in decreased lung volume
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Define kyphosis

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  • exaggerated posterior curvature of thoracic spine

- my decrease lung expansion and increase cardiac problem

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Define barrel chest

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  • anteroposterior diameter is equal to transverse diameter and ribs are horizontal
  • accompanies COPD
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what is tactile fremitus?

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palpable vibration when the patient speaks

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what does increased fremitus indicate?

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compression or consolidation in the lungs

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What does decreased fremitus indicate?

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thickness of the chest

  • COPD, pleural effusion
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Where would you feel the strongest vibrations (fremitus)?

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prominent between scapulae and around the sternum, sites where major bronchi are closest to chest wall. Decreases as you move down due to more tissue impeding sound transmission.

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What is the significance of unilateral decreased expansion?

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chest expansion is unequal with marked atelectasis or pneumonia, thoracic trauma, pneumothorax.

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What is the significance of bilateral decreased respiratory expansion?

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lag in expansion occurs with atelectasis, pneumonia, and postoperative guarding

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What is the normal sound you should hear over the lungs?

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resonance

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What is the significance of dullness on percussion of the lungs?

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signals abnormal density in lungs

ex. pneumonia, pleural effusion, atelectasis, tumour

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What is the measure for normal diaphragmatic excursion?

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3-5 cm or 7-8(well conditioned)

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what is the significance of decreased excursion?

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characterizes pleural effusion and atelectasis of lower lobes

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Where would you hear vesicular breath sounds? What would you hear?

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lung areas

  • soft and low pitched
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Where would you hear bronchial breath sounds? What would you hear?

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next to the trachea (usually only on the anterior side)

  • loud, high pitched
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Where would you hear bronchovesicular breath sounds? What would you hear?

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around the sternal border

  • medium loudness, medium pitch
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What are some adventitious breath sounds?

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  • fine or coarse crackles
  • wheezes
  • ronchi
  • friction rub
  • stridor
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Auscultating for Bronchophony

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  • tell patient to say “99”
  • normal: soft, indistinct
  • abnormal: can hear words clearly due to disease that increases lung density
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Auscultating for Egophany

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  • ask patient to say “eeeee”
  • normal: should hear “ee”
  • abnormal: long “aaaa” due to consolidation or compression
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Auscultating for whispered pectoriloquy

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  • whisper “1,2,3”
  • normal: faint, muffled, almost inaudible
  • abnormal: clear, faint due to small amounts of consolidation
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Define Asthma (palpate, percuss, ausc)
- condition in which your airways narrow and swell and may produce extra mucus - palpate: decreased tactile fremitus - percuss: resonance - ausc: wheezing
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Define Atelectasis (palpate, percuss, ausc)
- the collapse of the alveoli that prevents normal gas exchange between carbon dioxide and oxygen - Palp: lack of tactile fremitus - Percuss: dull over affected areas - ausc: decreased/absent breath sounds, possibly fine crackles
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What are the symptoms of atelectasis?
hypoventilation, chest pain, shortness of breath (dyspnea), coughing, lips and skin turning blue (cyanosis), inc resp&rate
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Define chronic bronchitis (palp, percuss, ausc)
- Chronic inflammation of the bronchial tree causing increased mucus production and blocked airways - palp: normal fremitus - percuss: resonant - ausc: wheezes
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Define lobar pneumonia (palp, percuss, ausc)
- Infection in fluid in bacteria causing area of consolidation - palp: increased fremitus - percuss: dull - ausc: crackles, Bronchophony, egophony, whisper pectoriloquy, wheezes, bronchial breath sounds, decreased breath sounds
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Symptoms of lobar pneumonia
cough, fever, shortness of breath, shallow breathing, chest pain, loss of appetite, low energy, fatigue
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Define pneumothorax (palp, percuss, ausc)
- Air moves into pleural space causing lung collapse - Full collapse: causes tracheal deviation - palp: decreased fremitus - percuss: hyperresonance - ausc: decreased or absent breath sounds
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Define pleural effusion (palp, percuss, ausc)
- Have fluid that fills in pleural space, that causes lung tissue that can be compressed or moved out of the way - palp: decreased fremitus and decreased chest expansion on affected side - percuss: dullness - ausc: decreased or absent breath sounds
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Define congestive heart failure (palp, percuss, ausc)
- o Increase in pulmonary veins causing interstitial edema around alveoli - palp: normal fremitus, skin can be cool and clamy - percuss: resonance - ausc: wheezes or crackles at bases
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What is primary prevention in respiratory?
preventing the initial occurrence of a chronic respiratory illness
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What are some examples of primary prevention?
- Avoiding prolonged exposure to chemicals - Education about air quality and smoking - Vaccines - Healthy living
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What is secondary prevention in respiratory?
Activities aimed at early identification and treatment to delay progression and disability
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What are examples of secondary prevention strategies?
- Comprehensive Health Assessment - Explain risk factors for lung disease including smoking and exposure to pollution and chemical irritants - Share brochures COPD/emphezema - Ensure patient and/or family can read and interpret literature (why?) - Teach patient to self-screen for warning signs worsening condition of lung disease such as persistent cough, chest pain, recurring lung infections, weight loss. - Encourage client to have seasonal flu shot. - Encourage annual physical examination with MD or Nurse Practitioner, including CXR as needed - Encourage family to support clients smoking reduction/cessation
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What is tertiary prevention in respiratory?
Ameliorating disease severity and disability, maximizing recovery from illness, enhancing quality of life
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Examples of tertiary prevention strategies?
• Maintain effective airway: DB&C, encourage fluid intake (if not contraindicated) ,teach purse lip breathing, auscultate chest every shift, O2 therapy teaching, adequate nutrition, regular planned activity
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Describe incentive spirometry
- method of encouraging voluntary deep breathing by providing visual feedback to patients about inspiratory volume. - Used to promote deep breathing and to prevent atelectasis in the post-operative patient.
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What are the benefits of purse-lipped breathing?
To prevent alveolar collapse, increase arterial oxygen saturation
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What are the benefits of diaphragmatic breathing?
Promote relaxation and provide pain control. Improves efficiency of breathing by decreasing air trapping and reducing work of breathing
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What are the benefits of consecutive coughing?
Help remove mucus more effectively and completely than one forceful cough
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what are the benefits of early ambulation?
Promote return of regular deep breathing and prevention of postoperative complication and improves circulation to the lungs
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